People and Pixels Linking Remote Sensing and Social Science (1998) / Chapter Skim
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Biographical Sketches of Contributors and Editors
Pages 237-244
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Previously, he was the coordinator of the project that led to the 1990 publication atlas of the Atlantic Forest Remains in Brazil. His work has appeared in numerous journals, including Human Ecology, Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, and Research in Economic Anthropology.
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RINKU ROY CHOWDHURY is a doctoral student in the Graduate School of Geography at Clark University. Her specialties are geographic information systems and remote sensing, ecology, and human-environment relationships.
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CHARLES HUTCHINSON is a professor of arid lands studies at the University of Arizona. He serves as the director of the Arizona Remote Sensing Center, Office of Arid Lands Studies, College of Agriculture, and as chair of the campuswide Interdisciplinary Committee on Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis.
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His research has focused on remote sensing of vegetation biophysical resources, especially inland and coastal wetlands; urban/suburban land use and land cover; and the development of improved digital image processing classification, change detection, and error evaluation algorithms. He is a contributing author to the Manual of Remote Sensing and the Manual of Photographic Interpretation.
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His current research examines the social implications of using geographic information systems in resource management decision making. His other research interests include using remote sensing to classify forest fire severity for the U.S.
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Previously, he worked in the Earth Systems Science Office of the NASA-Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, on the faculty of the University of Southern Mississippi, and as a scientific supervisor at Lockheed Electronics Corporation. His work has focused on bringing remote sensing and geographic information systems technology to the disciplines of anthropology and archeology.
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DAVID L SKOLE is professor of geography and director of the Basic Science and Remote Sensing Initiative at Michigan State University.
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Previously, he was on the faculty of Oklahoma State University, where he established the Center for Application of Remote Sensing. His research focuses on population-environment interactions, land-use and land-cover change, environmental modeling, health care accessibility, and spatial analysis; his methodological research focuses on geographic information systems and remote sensing.
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